Industries
A furniture or cabinet workshop is a made to order business hiding inside a batch process. Every kitchen is different, the panels come from the same few stock sizes, and the money is either won or lost on how the cutting was nested. Most workshops run the machine software and the office software as two unrelated worlds, so the office never knows what the machine actually consumed. Alibera reads machine data where the equipment supports it, keeps panel and edging stock in the same system, and plans the work orders from the order.
01In this category
Every process below runs on the same core system. The differences show up in configuration, in which modules you switch on, and in what gets integrated.
02What it has to do
The capabilities below are the ones that come up first in discovery calls with companies in this category.
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Alibera reads data from CNC machines, Omron PLCs, Universal Robots and other IoT devices, and can send control commands back. That turns machine time into something the schedule and the costing can actually use, instead of a number somebody types in at the end of the shift.
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Multi level bills of material with make to order and make to stock planning, so a confirmed order drives the material requirement and the work orders rather than a separate spreadsheet that somebody has to remember to update.
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Stock, orders, receiving and shipping in one place, with barcode and parcel tracking. Warehouse and logistics systems can be synced one way or both ways depending on what the business actually needs.
03Where to go next
Three pages cover most of what gets asked after this one.
A discovery call is a conversation about your process, not a scripted product walkthrough. If Alibera is a poor fit for what you make, we will say so on that call.